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Dennis Prager Podcasts
Conservative Bestselling Author Exposes NPR's Left-Wing Insulation
"This has nothing to do with me talking about me, but it's me talking about a guy named Dennis prager. Now, I would say that I have more influence in the society than 99% of the people that NPR has on. Forgetting politicians of non politicians. But I'm a conservative, so I have beyond. Have they ever had Ben Shapiro on NPR? I don't know. I'm asking, maybe once if they have at all, Jordan Peterson, Tom sowell, Larry elder, the point is they insulate people from non left wing opinion. That's what they do. I mean, I mean, just the fact that I have, I think, it's the bestselling Bible commentary currently on Amazon. So I have two strikes against me. One I'm conservative and second it's religious.
AP News Radio
Vice Media files for bankruptcy to facilitate sale
"Some in the digital media world are struggling. Now there's word that vice media is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest digital media company to falter. Over the years, vice developed a reputation for in your face journalism that covered daring stories all around the world, but now vice has agreed to sell its assets to a consortium of lenders. Digital advertising has plummeted this year, cutting into the profitability of major tech companies. This comes in the middle of a number of media layoffs and closures, including job cuts at gannett, NPR, The Washington Post, and more recently. In April, BuzzFeed incorporated announced that its Pulitzer Prize winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed news was being shut down as
The Eric Metaxas Show
Cal Thomas and Eric Reminisce About Kitty Carlisle Hart
"I were together. It was the 96th birthday event for Kitty Carlisle Hart. And I remember I went there, she sang at her 96th birthday. This was at what? It was one of the hotels on Park Avenue here. And I went there with Dick Cavett, and I look over and there's Cal Thomas. I've known you from long before that. But it's hard to believe that the woman who was singing was in a night at the opera, the Marx brothers film from 1935. So I just, I'll never forget that evening, I'll never forget seeing you there. Well, let me take a quick Kitty Carlisle Hart story. Some years ago, I was attending the national conference of editorial writers in St. Paul, Minnesota. And the gentleman who was heading it up the editorial page editor of the St. Paul pioneer press called me and desperation. I had another event that night. I wasn't going to go to this particular event. And he said, look, you got to come back and help me out. I said, why? Well, our speaker who was supposed to debate Kitty Carlisle Hart has been held up due to bad weather at the airport. And I don't have anybody. I said, you're asking me to come in and debate an old lady. Are you crazy? So no, no, please. Come on, you got to help me out. So hold on, hold on. Tell me again, what was this here, roughly? This was in the early 90s, as I recall. In the early 90s, and what in the world was the subject of the debate to be? Because she was once the head of what? The national endowment of the humanities or something like that? Right. There was a big controversy then whether a federal money should be used to underwrite some of these agencies that featured scatological and other things anti Christian things. Yes, I think you may be referring, I believe it's called PBS or NPR. So yes, that was a hot debate. And she was on the wrong side of it. Poor kitty.
Mark Levin
NPR: U.S. Unsolved Murder Rates Are at a Record High
"National pubic radio state radio They hate being called that but they clearly are a part of the state More people are getting away with murder unsolved killings reach a record high More murders across America going unsolved exacerbating the grief of families already reeling and worsening the largely cracked trust between police and the public especially communities of color most affected by gun violence That kind of crap left wing propaganda from state media The reason more murders are going unsolved is because there's less cops And if people are upset about it then they should stop voting for city councilmen in mayors Who want less cops That's the bottom line While the rate at which murders are solved or cleared has been declining for decades it is now dropped the slightly below 50% in 2020 a new historic low Several big cities including Chicago have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid 30s range We saw a sharp drop in the national clearance rate in 2020 says professor Philip cook Public policy research and professor emeritus at duke university University of Chicago urban labs
AP News Radio
NYC transit agency pulls the brake on Twitter service alerts
"The MTA puts the brakes on Twitter service alerts for subways and buses in New York City. The decision put the country's largest transportation network among a growing number of accounts from NPR to Elton John, who have reduced their Twitter presence or left the platform since its takeover by Elon Musk. The MTA says the move comes after Twitter suspended the account without warning for a second time after the agency sent an alert to its 1 million followers. For its part, Twitter has signaled that the days of private accounts disseminating troves of information at no cost may be ending. The MTA estimates the cost could be 50,000 a month. Chicago transit authority says it's considering ending alerts as well. Julie Walker, New York.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
NPR Quits Twitter Over 'Government-Funded' Label by Elon Musk
"NPR is part of that corruption. Sorry, no other, they do a lot of great work. But NPR, which of course, national public radio, which assiduously avoided the Hunter Biden laptop story. All they wouldn't touch that story. No, no, no, no. That wasn't a credible news story. Now that it turns out the hunter laptop was real, it is real, they got egg all over their face. And you and I help fund NPR. Which is disgraceful. It's absolutely disgraceful. So Elon Musk has a fixed a label to the NPR Twitter account saying that the government helps fund NPR. No, that is a 100% accurate. It's a 100% truthful. And NPR can't stand it. So what does NPR do? They run for the hills. They pack up their marbles and they go home. We're not going to post on Twitter anymore. They've got all their NPR people lining up saying we're leaving Twitter. Most people could care less if NPR is on Twitter or not. And all Elon Musk has done is reminded Americans that taxpayer dollars helped subsidize NPR. That's the beef. I mean, there's lots of liberal media out there. There's all kinds of leftist media out there. Elon Musk is doing really, really impressive things. And one of the most impressive features is being able to call out entities like NPR.
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NPR quits Elon Musk's Twitter over 'government-funded' label
"National public radio is quitting Twitter, saying the social media giant is trying to undermine its credibility. Last week, Twitter labeled NPR's main account state of affiliated media. It later changed that to government funded media and gave the same label to the BBC. NPR does get government funding, but says that accounts for less than 1% of its annual operating budget and that Twitter is falsely implying it's not editorially independent. A spokeswoman says the organization's accounts will no longer be active. That NPR will not put its journalism on platforms that look to undermine its credibility. NPR's journalists employees and member stations can decide on their own whether to stay on the platform.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Twitter Labels NPR and BBC As 'State-Affiliated Media'
"Twitter did something that was a little naughty, but not all that naughty, and in some ways quite accurate, which is that in the label of identification, it identified NPR and the BBC as state affiliated media, state affiliated media. Now think about it, this is clinically accurate. Why? Because NPR is a creation of the government. It receives and I'll tell you in a minute how much a lot of funding from the government. Now NPR also raises funds from corporations from private sources and so on. But the government is a prime funder of NPR as we'll see. Same is of course true of the BBC, but when Twitter just takes a step of simply noting. Think about what state affiliated media means, your media organ, affiliated, go connected with the state, true or false. True. But NPR says, well, not really, we are, we have editorial independence. We're able to we're able to speak our minds, we're able to speak truth to power, and then I say to myself, well, give me an example of the last time you spoke truth to power with the Biden administration in place. Show me some critiques that you've done an NPR off Biden regime policies. Well, as far as I know, there are none. And so what you have is you have NPR, basically doing the bidding of the Biden regime while pretending to an editorial independence that I think is somewhat questionable. It's questionable only because of the golden rule, right? What's the golden rule? He who provides the gold makes the rules by and large when you're funding somebody or bankrolling them, you're putting money in their pocket, you're going to have leverage over what it is that they say and how they say it.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Contact Your Representative to Defund the FBI, DOJ
"Now, president Trump last night and earlier today, calling for the Republicans to defund the Justice Department and the FBI. And I say that absolutely needs to happen. And so today during this radio program, I'm going to encourage you to contact, Capitol Hill, contact your elected representatives, and you demand demand of them that they defund the FBI and the Justice Department. You see, this is where we can fight back. We don't have to burn anything down. We don't have to storm into any government buildings to make our point, we can do it legally. We gave the Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives and now we must demand that they use that power, and they use that power to defund the weaponize Justice Department and the FBI. Got to do it. This is the first this is the first line of attack. If they're going to weaponize these agencies to come after good, hearted law abiding American citizens, then by golly, we're going to strip them of every single tax dollar. They can be like NPR. They can hold their little telethons over at FBI headquarters. They can pull a Jerry Lewis 24 hour telethon if they want to get their money. But they're not getting it from the taxpayers.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Proper Response for the Parent of a Boy Who Says He's a Girl
"Do you know that I almost never review calls, I'm a man, after all, I don't review conversations. It's something women do regularly. It's what keeps them up at night if they can't sleep. But I had a conversation with the caller yesterday who was annoyed with me, but he was respectful, and I kept him on for quite a while. He might be listening now. And I don't remember the age. I think 5 year old son, who said that he is a girl. I believe that was the case. I may have the age off by a year and it might be the other direction, but I think it is that. And I said, either to him or after his call, that I think the proper response of a parent to a 5 year old boy who says that he's a girl is though you're not. That's the proper response. There's no question that had this occurred with the same human being the same father. And the same child, but happened 20 years ago, that is exactly what he would have said. He might be a reader of The New York Times, however. Or a consumer of CNN or NPR. And now the loving parent is supposed to say, of course you're a girl. Why is that loving?
The Dan Bongino Show
Washington Times: Netanyahu Moves to ‘Avoid Civil War'
"The left is pushing Israel right now to the brink of Civil War because they don't like the judicial reforms at the right leaning government Netanyahu is pushing through No they're not And here's the headline Washington times Netanyahu moves to quote avoid Civil War by delaying judicial overall plans You think they're making that up that that wasn't an implied threat by the left You don't think the left here is learning from that You think it's a big mistake in coincidence that NPR communist NPR is doing segments now about how oh look it's great The trans communities arming up is great terrific Everyone should exercise their Second Amendment right It's just kind of weird that left leaning NPR now all of a sudden doesn't seem to have such a problem with it
The Dan Bongino Show
NPR Runs a Piece About Trans People Loading up on Guns
"Step number two I should say precision matters The left's plans for a cold Civil War here First threaten one second well cold Civil War wouldn't be much of a threat if we don't have arms Lefties I thought they were all about gun confiscation Gun control I thought that was no no no no not about that at all Oh come on Dan Listen to Tucker cover this This was Tucker Carlson covering a segment on NPR to the left of Lenin and PR Here's NPR covering how the trans community is chosen to arm themselves Why I have no idea the threat is very minimal against the trans community not nonexistent but minimal But NPR which has been resolutely committed to disarming you for years now all of a sudden seems to like guns again Wow interesting As long as they're their political allies you think it's an accident Here take a listen And listening needless to say to national public radio the voice of menopausal liberalism Mass shootings targeting LGBTQ spaces and a rise in anti trans rhetoric have inspired some queer people to take up arms Rainbow reload They're packing heat They'll be appendix caring in more ways than one Watch out This is NPR national public radio Suddenly telling you that actually guns are good encouraging people to go to the gun store immediately but not all people Just trans people Guns are bad except in the hands of trans people What is going on here
The Officer Tatum Show
Blackness or Poor Credit?
"It's just like the bank borrowing thing. You know, people can throw out statistical data and I'm going to read a data point and this article that I read that was written by Larry elder had an had these incredible points that is unbelievable that most people don't think about when you look at statistical data, you have to say, well, there's a lot of other questions to be asked. You know, Larry elder was saying that he was listening to NPR and he saw that the NAACP was filing a lawsuit against several banks. And he says the study shows according to the lawyer that Morgan's lenders charge black home loan borrowers, higher rates of interest when compared to white borrows. When I guess it's the question that Larry was asking, he said, everywhere white and blacks have identical for oh no, this is not the question he's asking, but this is a follow-up to it. It's just everywhere white and blacks have identical financial profiles according to the lawyer. Banks still charge blacks higher rates of interest. And I want you guys to consider this and understand this. Every time they come up with these ideas, you have to ask more questions. They say, well, black people are charged to hire a higher rates of interest when they go and get bank loans and it's like, you have to ask more questions. Do you honestly think that a black man walks into a bank and they go, you know what? Because he's black. We're going to charge him more money. Just because he's black. His financial structure looks great. The guy is definitely going to pay stuff. He had an 850 credit score. But because he's black, though, we're going to find a way to charge him a higher interest rate. And what is not being discussed is look at all the other components around getting the interest rate, right? Can you negotiate? How many of these black people who are going in to getting loans? How many of them are negotiating a better rate?
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Insurrection Label
"I'm looking I haven't looked at it since I wrote about it. I wrote about the labeling of insurrection within 5 days of the event. And spoke about how it's a parallel to the Reichstag fire. The gigantic lie of calling it an insurrection. Now that you see the videos, it is clear the whole thing is a lie. It's one of the great hoaxes of American history. Perpetrated by the entire left wing media which is called the mainstream media, whether it's The Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, NBC ABC, CBS, NPR, it doesn't matter. They all have no commitment to truth on any issue that affects their views of life.
Mark Levin
Mainstream Media Blocked Nicholas Wade From Discussing Lab Leak
"I had Nicholas wade on Sunday's program as I did two years ago give or take And he made it abundantly clear in the piece that he wrote That really all roads were leading to the lab and absolutely no evidence was ever provided about this back to human jump Ever I want you to listen to this from last night Nicholas wade on life liberty and Levin cut 22 go You write this piece it is thoroughly objective as best as I can tell It's totally understandable even to the average journalist You yourself have a journalism background you've written on this topic of signs for New York Times nature's science magazine you've written books you're an expert in the field just a yes or no Will you invited to discuss this on CNN I was once yes by a smoker How about MSNBC No nothing from them How about The New York Times No they were not interested How about The Washington Post Very simple No How about CBS NBC or ABC No nothing from them That I recall How about PBS No I didn't have PBS How about NPR No nothing for me I'm just curious
Mark Levin
Tim Graham: NPR Promotes “The Communist Manifesto” in 2023
"NPR National pubic radio promotes the communist manifesto in 2023 by Tim Graham I listen to this it is unbelievable Absolutely unbelievable He says it's entirely predictable even inevitable that public broadcasting would favor socialism Actually Marxism and all its programming but it's a little more surprising when it openly touts the communist manifesto Since I'm a conservative go out and for punishment he says I was driving on the highway on Sunday morning listening to that national pubic radio distributed program on the media with host Brooke gladstone The brickster A longtime fixture at NPR it's a woman Was predictable when she chatted with socialists and Naomi orchis About their mutual loathing of free market fundamentalism Free market fundamentalism But the next segment was even worse My jaw dropped Gladstone gushed that since 1847 Karl Marx and Frederick engels had offered refuge inspiration and argument So many arguments still she oozed Like Hamlet's ghost the manifestos both in possible and imperative in its call for action Oh they're so poetic Then she introduced British author China Melville Whose 2022 book a specter haunted is she said a non fiction rumination on that stalwart text The communist manifesto is crap Everything marks predicted Is wrong
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Discuss the 'He Gets Us' Super Bowl Ads
"Get to talk to my friend John smirke for a few minutes. John, what else should we talk about today? Well, I've got another piece that stream dot org called AOC warns us, adds like he gets us, won't stop her from coming to get us. That's the Super Bowl ad. Yeah, now I didn't know there was a Super Bowl happening, but I heard about it afterwards and that there's this thing in the middle called a halftime where they have TV commercials. And in that, you know, let me correct you. The Super Bowl has been happening for a half a century. It's good to ignore it. But halftime is really where they bring out kind of pornographic performers and things. It's not for the kids. Let me tell you. But a lot of people do run these ads throughout the Super Bowl. You referring to one that was about Jesus, and it was called he gets us. And it was a kind of a pro Christian ad just designed to kind of pull people in and say, you know, Jesus isn't a boogeyman of the religious right, but he is the savior of the world. And he loves you. Right. And so I looked at they have a whole bunch of these ads. They created a whole campaign and they put several of them on the Super Bowl. And they seem to be a well meaning effort to dismantle hostility towards Christianity, but I'm kind of uncomfortable because what they do is Jesus was an immigrant. He was a refugee. Jesus was poor. Jesus resisted the power structure. Jesus was a victim of capital punishment. All the things about Jesus that don't matter at all. Because I say he was actually from Guatemala. Did they get that in? Nicaragua. And you have to say it in that NPR accent. So I was like, well, I'm next. I think the people who funded this were well meaning. I think they probably hired a bunch of woke tattooed Ivy League grads, but like, how can we make Jesus less repulsive? I know, we'll emphasize the fact that he had darker skin than, say, like, yeah, he wasn't white. He realized that he wasn't white, like the bad people.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Talks to Townhall's Kurt Schlicter About Nikki Haley
"Allegedly tomorrow you have a piece coming out of town hall dot com. Can you give our 3 million list is a little sneaky little peek about your take on Nikki Hades strange surprising announcement colonel Kaye. Well, it's going to be called noted Nikki Harris, the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party. And the nicest thing I say about her is that she's a mediocrity. Look, the problem with Nikki Haley is no one trusts her to be conservative. And when you catch her on TV, making a commitment. Now look, I don't expect politicians to be rigorously honest. I'm a realistic cat. But, you know, if you line to my face about one thing, I got a jury instruction around here somewhere that says, if someone's. Intentionally deceptive about one thing, you may consider that they may be intentionally deceptive about many things or all. And that is not called a fact pattern council. Yes. Look, the hit on Nikki Hale is no one trusts her to get out there and promote America first agenda. In fact, I think she is, I think she's on the cutting edge of 2005. Have you seen her hacky political action? I swear, it's something like the eagle forum for families and eagles and freedom and the flag and also eagles. It's just like the most basic consultant. This is what those conservatives will eat up. What the flag in the name. But also the ads. The ad that she launched on Tuesday was like, it was like agonizing. You know NPR, everybody you can't be on NPR unless you actually have valium flowing in your blood. That's the way it was like somebody from NPR was given more value and it was like the most uninspiring this is a PSA yes, I'm America, vote for it. It was like, I'm not trying to be, you know, it's night here. It was like, this is supposed to excite people? No, she deserves mockery and we need to mock people who are not cutting it so that they will do better.
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"Npr live from npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman. President biden is mandating that millions of americans get cove in nineteen vaccines that includes federal workers and contractors healthcare workers and some workers in the private sector in a major speech on thursday biden said that while the majority of americans have gotten their first shots. It's not enough to stem. The corona virus pandemic. Three quarters of the eligible have gotten at least one shot but one quarter has not gotten any fast thoroughly. Eighty million americans not vaccinated and the country as large as ours. That's twenty five percent minority at twenty. Five percent can cause a lot of damage and they are. Some republicans are denouncing biden's vaccine mandates as unconstitutional president biden and chinese leader. Xi jinping have spoken by phone about strange relations between their countries. It's only their second call since biden took office in january. npr's john ruiz reports. They appear to be trying to stabilize the relationship between the nations. The white house said in a statement the call was a quote broad strategic discussion it covered areas where interests converge and areas where interests values and perspectives diverge. The statement said biden and she agreed to engage on both sets of issues openly and straightforwardly. It said the two leaders also discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict prior to the call senior administration officials said in meetings in recent months lower level. Chinese officials had not shown a willingness to engage. The officials said the hope behind this call. Was that engagement at the leader level. Would move the ball forward john rich. Npr news house. speaker. Nancy pelosi's calling for an extension of some of the social service benefits passed by congress earlier this year to help americans deal with the pandemic that includes a child tax credit from member station. Gbh in boston craig. Lamotte reports pelosi was speaking during a visit to massachusetts. Pelosi visited a childcare center in worcester where parents thanked her for cares act funding. That helped keep the center open and for supporting monthly child. Tax credit payments pelosi says the benefits included in the kovic relief packages should extend beyond the pandemic. We now have a magnificent opportunity with president biden. Because he wants these things not to just be cobra but to be about the future as well. Pelosi was joined by massachusetts. Congressman. jim mcgovern. Who said he plans to bring a budget. Reconciliation bill that includes those benefits to the floor as soon as possible. A handful of protestors outside the venue called the democratic proposals handouts will increase taxes for npr. News i'm greg lamotte in boston. President biden will visit california next week to survey wildfire damage in the west. Well there we'll also campaign with california democratic governor gavin newsom who is facing a recall that recall election is set for next tuesday. You're listening to npr. News and award has been established to honor some of the heroes of september eleventh. Two thousand one. It's co sponsored by families of people who were aboard flight ninety three that crashed in pennsylvania for member station w. I t. f. Anthony rosco has more. emily route. Schinkel is the goddaughter a flight attendant. Lorraine bay who was on united flight ninety three the plane that passengers and crew crashed in a field outside of shanksville rather than allow al qaeda hijackers to hit another target on nine eleven. Shankill says the flight ninety three heroes award will honor people who defend others. Even in the face of unimaginable danger people regular people find themselves in situations that was not expected and they make the right decision that they make. A courageous brain selfless decision. The national park service supporters of the national memorial and relatives of flight ninety three victims selected the four finalists for the award. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the memorial today for npr news. I'm anthony o. Does go in harrisburg pennsylvania. Firefighters in northern california continued to work on the dixie wildfire. It's almost the state's largest ever fire and covers an area. That's nearly the size of rhode island. Firefighters have gotten about sixty percent of this blaze contained. But it's still growing on thursday. Fire officials ordered new evacuations powerful winds continue to fan the flames with some gusts of forty six miles per hour separately. The national weather service says a heatwave is baking parts of the west and central plains forecasters say stifling heat will boost temperatures up to twenty five degrees above normal and will be felt from nevada kansas. I'm korva coleman. Npr news in washington.
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"Fifteen times before this each time. He was denied in part because he claims he doesn't remember shooting the democratic presidential candidate and that's limited his expressions of remorse but denise bhodan an attorney has been working for his release says this time around the parole commissioner seemed satisfied that he has accepted at least partial responsibility but even weighing that against only partial responsibility. They found that he does not pose a risk of danger. Sirhan seventy seven years old and has a good record in prison. His release is not yet assured the parole recommendation will be reviewed and it still subject to final approval by the governor martin kosti. Npr news this is npr news about ninety school. Children in nigeria were reunited with their families today after being held captive by criminal gangs for nearly three months. The children had been kidnapped from school. On may thirtieth mass kidnappings of school children have become a money making operation for armed. Gangs in nigeria. The house committee investigating the deadly attack on the us. Capital is demanding. Records related to the insurrection from fifteen social media companies. npr's shannon bond reports lawmakers. Want to know how the tech companies handled false information in other problems. The select committee wants the social media. Companies to turn over records related to the spread of misinformation domestic violent extremism foreign influence and efforts to overturn the election. Dating back to the spring of twenty twenty. it also wants to know what the platforms did or didn't do to respond to these risks. Many of the hundreds of people arrested in connection with the january. Six insurrection planned and documented their activity on social media. The committee's request went to the biggest platforms. Facebook and google which are among npr's financial sponsors as well as smaller sites popular with trump supporters. Like parlor and gab. The committee is giving the company's two weeks to respond shannon bonds. Npr news in california. The lake tahoe visitors authority is urging people not to visit. The air. quality is terrible because of a major wildfire. The kaldor fire has burned more than one hundred forty thousand acres in. The sierra nevada is now only about twelve percent contained after breaking out august fourteenth. I'm nora raum npr news..
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"I'm trial snyder. President biden is praising the house vote on his infrastructure agenda. it's going to transform. America cut taxes for working families and position. The american economy for long-term long-term growth biden speaking to reporters at the white house after house. Democratic leaders struck a deal with party moderates who'd been threatening to withhold support for a resolution that provides a framework for three and a half trillion dollar spending plan. The group got a commitment for a vote on the separate. One dollar bipartisan package. No later than september twenty seventh. The president also gave an update on the afghanistan evacuation. He is under pressure to extend his august thirty first deadline. But he said he's sticking with it. He did however leave the door open for an extension saying he has asked the pentagon and the state department for contingency plans in case say become necessary. Dozens of veterans organizations are vowing to hold president biden to his commitment to evacuate afghans. Who helped the us. Military npr's quil lawrence reports are asking for a meeting with the president. A coalition of american veterans organizations called evacuate. Our allies has asked for a virtual meeting with biden before the american withdrawal from afghanistan is complete a deadline. That's currently just a week away. Army vet chris. Goldsmith says it's about preserving american credibility and we want president biden to understand that the mission is not complete an arbitrary date mission is complete. We fulfill our promise to our allies. Home goldsmith says veterans of the war are wrestling with the guilt. That promises made on the battlefield could be broken. The number of afghan allies and family members still left behind is estimated in the tens of thousands quil lawrence. Npr news the supreme court issued an order that could force the biden administration to reinstate a controversial trump era immigrant program that forced asylum seekers to wait and dangerous mexican border cities. Npr's john burnett reports a cordial refused to block a ruling from texas judge. That said president biden had unlawfully cancelled. The program don't as remained in mexico. The high court in a brief unsigned order told the biden white house that it cannot rescind the twenty nineteen program that was harshly criticized by human rights groups. The program forced tens of thousands of migrants to wait in mexican cities like matamoros in tijuana where they lived in squalid tent camps and were preyed on by extortionists. The court cited a decision last year. That faulted the trump administration for arbitrarily and capriciously canceling daca. The program that protects migrants brought here illegally as children biden had sought an emergency. Stay from the court. The administration must now argue. Its case in front of a federal appeals court john burnett. Npr news. and you're listening to npr news for the second time in two days vice president. Kamla harasses calling out china. And she's urging vietnam to join the us to challenge what she calls china's bullying in the south. China sea. Hares is on a week. Long trip to southeast asia to show us support for the region in an effort to counter chinese influence chinese state media accused harris of seeking to drive a wedge through the region in oklahoma man has been arrested and charged for allegedly assaulting journalists during the january. Sixth attack on the us capitol npr's ryan. Lucas has more forty-one-year-old. Benjamin berlioux of miami oklahoma is facing two counts related to the assault of an associated. Press photographer outside. The capitol an f. b. i. affidavit says videos from the riot show berlioux and others grabbing pushing and then dragging the photographer at a later point videos purportedly show berlioux pushing the same. Ap photographer over and off a low stone wall along the capital's west lawn officials say berlioux is the eighth person in the capital right investigation to be arrested for allegedly destroying media equipment assaulting journalists or inciting violence against them overall within five hundred and fifty people have been charged in connection with the attack on the capital ryan lucas. Npr news washington to northern california. Now where firefighters are working to keep that huge calder fire. From lake tahoe. The fire has destroyed more than four hundred fifty homes since it broke out earlier this month. As threatening thousands of other structures overall more than fourteen thousand firefighters are battling a dozen major wildfires in california. Joyal snyder this is npr news..
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"Flash flooding and says some local areas could get up to five inches of rain. You're listening to npr news. In haiti the death toll from last weekend's catastrophic earthquake is more than nineteen hundred people. Npr's jason bobi and isn't southern haiti and says ten thousand people were injured. The vast majority of the fatalities were in the southwestern most part of hating the tallies of vote deaths and injuries are expected to rise. Search and rescue operations continue in spots where people are still believed to be trapped. The number of injured is also expected to go up as hospitals have been struggling to treat all of the incoming u s coast guard helicopters. Have been ferrying. Some of the most critical patients to port au prince for more sophisticated treatment but others with less severe injuries have been waiting days to be seen medical aid groups and the haitian government say. They're doing the best. They can in extremely difficult conditions including tropical storm to get all the patients. Jason bobbie-ann npr news in southern haiti opening. Statements are set for today in new york in the federal trial of our nba star. R kelly. He's accused of sexual exploitation of girls and women and sexual trafficking among other charges. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all the accusations separately. He faces federal charges in illinois on accusations of child pornography and obstructing justice is again pleaded not guilty. The george election board is poised to create a review panel. That could strip the state's most populous county of the power of running its own elections. The county is home to atlanta and many democratic voters georgia republican lawmakers claim without providing evidence. That the county's elections have been badly conducted on korva coleman. Npr news from washington support for npr and the following message. come from american express. Make the most of your life with offers on travel. Dining and entertainment. Learn more at american express dot com slash with amex..
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"Live from npr news. I'm jack speer. President biden is getting regular briefings from his national security team on the operations in afghanistan. Remove civilian personnel. Npr's frankel or donas reports by traveled from his home in wilmington delaware to camp. David today for vacation will continue receive updates. The white house says biden is being kept abreast of the military operation to evacuate embassy. Staff and other americans from kabul concerns are growing over security in the capital as the taliban of taking control of almost two thirds of the country bind has yet to comment on the deployment of three thousand troops back to afghanistan. He did not stop to talk with reporters as he left delaware nor did he answer shouted questions on thursday following a discussion on prescription drugs. The by the administration has insisted that the deployment is a temporary mission with a specific goal. And that they will not be reentering into combat with the taliban franko or donas. Npr news washington. Even though government health officials are only now recommending a booster shot of kobe nineteen vaccine for people with weakened immune systems it appears more than a million americans went ahead and got that extra dose on their own the centers for disease control and prevention which is now formerly recommending. A booster shot for that group. Says ron one point. One million people who got the to dose of madonna or pfizer vaccine sought out and received at least one additional dose on their own. The cdc says around ninety thousand people who got the single-dose johnson and johnson shot also received at least one additional dose the corona viruses again rampaging through taxes with more infections and more hospitalizations. But as npr's john burnett reports texas governor. Greg abbott is defending his order. That no school district may impose a mask mandate for students governor. Abbott is in a standoff with some of the state's largest school district. Houston dallas fort worth austin and san antonio. They're requiring all students to mask up when they returned to school this month. In the last week there's been a welter of lawsuits challenging the governor statewide order that says no governmental entity may force masking a judge in dallas sided with the schools. And now the governor is asking. A federal appeals court to enforce his ban on mask mandates. Many smaller to medium sized school districts leery of running afoul of abbott have made masks optional while abbott fights mandatory masking texas. Icu's are filling up with unvaccinated. Covert nineteen patients. Some of the hospitals have now opened triage tents in parking. Lots john burnett. Npr news austin. This sunday midnight is the deadline for able to take advantage of a special sign up period. Those who want healthcare coverage under the affordable care act president biden reopened the healthcare dot gov marketplace due to the corona virus pandemic giving people the opportunity to sign up for coverage. They lost their healthcare. In recent months stocks managed to out modest gains on wall street. The dow fifteen points. The nasdaq closed up six points. Today you're listening to npr new york state's top democratic lawmaker announced today. he will launch an impeachment. Investigation governor andrew cuomo will once he steps down will not be taking place cuomo who faces allegations from nearly a dozen women. He sexually harassed them greater early. This month to resign effective august twenty fourth cuomo had been coming under increasing pressure since the release of the findings of an independent investigation by the state attorney. General's office state house speaker. Call saying the state assembly heard from. Its lawyers that had can't impeach and remove an official no longer in office. Canada will require kovic. Nineteen vaccinations for all federal government employees by this fall as well as for many travelers. Emma jacobs has that story. Canada's minister for intergovernmental affairs. Dominique leblanc noted the government of canada. Hustle large workforce and reach to help boost vaccination rates. It is both our opportunity but also our duty to lead. By example more than eighty percent of eligible canadians have received at least one dose of a cove in nineteen vaccine. But the of vaccinations has slowed. The new mandate will also apply to employees a federally regulated sectors like the airline industry as well as travelers on commercial airlines and some rail in cruise-ship passengers for npr news. I'm emma jacobs in montreal. According to the treasury department the second monthly child tax care credit is now being disbursed with more than fifteen billion dollars going out to the families of around sixty one million children. The first round of payments went out last month. i'm jack speer npr news..
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"Month including nearly nineteen thousand unaccompanied minors the most ever in a single month in a visit to brownsville texas secretary. My orcas acknowledged the serious challenge. That's creating for federal officials and local communities. It is complicated changing and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. My arca said that a rising number of migrants are testing positive for the corona virus. But he pushed back on the claim. That migrants are driving the dramatic rise. In cases across the south saying the positivity rate among migrants is the same or lower than rates in border communities joel rose. Npr news farmers efforts to put the opioid crisis and the review mirror are continuing. The remains a great deal of anger. The wealthy family behind the company will be protected from lawsuits under the deal. Confirmation hearings begun in. Us bankruptcy court for an agreement that would remove control the company for members of the wealthy sackler family while requiring them to contribute four and a half billion dollars opioid abatement efforts most states with claims against the company of signed off on the agreement. Oil bounced up a little bit gains rising with the stock market up. Fourteen points for the dow. This is npr. The number of people filing first time jobless claims fell for third straight week. The labor department reports initial applications for unemployment benefits came into three hundred seventy five thousand down from the previous week and well below the nine hundred thousand weekly applications being filed in january. Just the latest sign. Us economy continues to reopen with more people returning to work. The overall employment is yet to rebound fully to pre pandemic levels. Adidas says it is selling off its brand reebok. The germans sporting goods company has struggled to revive reebok's performance for years finally agreeing to sell it to authentic brands group for two and a half billion dollars more from npr's alina sell euch. Reebok shot to success in the nineteen eighties but had lost its footing by the two thousands when adidas acquired the brand dido's jolted reebok into profitability and even four-time undercut the dominant nike in the us. But the brand never quite caught up to its turnaround expectations a few months ago. Adidas put it on the block. Now reebok is going to authentic brands group. Which has been buying up. Intellectual property in licensing rights to dozens of consumer names including devour forever. Twenty one brooks brothers nine west. It also owns rights to brands of such legends as marilyn monroe and shaquille o'neal authentic brands recently filed to go public on the new york stock exchange. Alina so you. Npr news russian company..
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"Actual speeds are live from npr news. I'm shay stevens. President biden is praising the bipartisan infrastructure. Bill passed by the us. Senate npr's off mukalla reports that biden says it's an example of how democracy can work. The president spoke alongside vice president. Combo harris and the two of them celebrated the bill's passage by touting all the things it can do for trains broadband and electric vehicles but for biden. This win isn't just about the substance of the bill. It's more existential. Desire to prove that bipartisanship is still feasible in washington her. No compromise is hard for both sides. When it's important it's important. It's necessary for democracy to be able to function. The president also insisted he remains optimistic. That democrats will stick together to pass a separate larger spending bill smith. Npr news the white house. New york governor andrew cuomo says you leave office in two weeks. As npr's brian man reports cuomo has been under pressure to resign over. Sexual misconduct. allegations sounding emotional at times. Cuomo denied any egregious wrongdoing though he acknowledged behaving at times in ways that were outdated and insensitive. He then said he would leave office later this month. And i think that given the circumstances the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing and therefore that's what i'll do and my resignation will be effective in fourteen days. Cuomo faced likely impeachment following a state attorney general report that detailed multiple allegations of suggestive comments inappropriate touching and even groping women on his staff. Lieutenant governor kathy hokuto moderate democrat from upstate new york we'll assume leadership of state government ryan men. Npr news new york. Some researchers say they've found markers in the blood that can predict whether a covert nineteen vaccine will work details from. Npr's joe palca. The markers are actually. The levels of different kinds of antibodies in blood. A research team made up of government academic and industry scientists were looking for what are called correlates of immunity in this case. Antibodies in the blood that would predict whether a covert nineteen vaccine would protect. People are not perhaps unsurprisingly the researchers found that the higher the antibody levels the more likely the vaccine would be protective knowing. This will help show whether a new vaccine say one to address. New corona virus variants will work without having to tested in tens of thousands of volunteers. Joe palca npr news. The texas supreme court says democratic legislators who fled to washington. Dc to block a controversial elections. Bill can still be arrested more than fifty lawmakers left the state but many have since returned just five more of them are needed for quorum to resume work on the election. Overhaul this is npr news. Wisconsin governor tony. Evers has vetoed a series of republican bills. That are meant to tighten restrictions on absentee ballots. Iverson's advising to counties to ignore subpoenas for ballots and voting equipment sought by investigation. Salt four investigations into the twenty twenty general election. Wisconsin republicans have voted to audit the state's presidential election results. Joe biden won the state by fewer than twenty one thousand votes. Google has unveiled some new features for its search engine and youtube. As npr's bobby allen reports the changes include stopping advertising. That's aimed at minors. Google has long been under pressure to do more to shield young people from prying eyes on its platform now. It's announcing a suite of changes including removing commercial content from its children's app making browsing online more private and turning off. Its auto play feature on youtube. That feature in particular has been criticized by child. Safety advocates and members of congress who say the algorithms recommendations can put misinformation and other potentially dangerous material in front of children google which is a financial supporter of. Npr will also soon allow parents to request the removal of kids images from the search giant site. Bobby allen npr news san francisco on wall street stocks closed mixed today with the dow jones industrial average gaining one hundred sixty. Two points the nasdaq. Composite index fell seventy two points and the s&p five hundred at four. Us futures are flat in after hours. Trading in asia pacific markets are up slightly. I'm shay stevens. This is npr news..
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"Betterment dot com slash. 401k live from npr news. I'm giles snyder. Senate democrats have released a three point. Five trillion dollar budget framework meant to advance many president. Biden's top domestic priorities. Npr's kelsey snell reports as senate plans to begin the budget process this week. Senate democrats plan to use budget rules to try to pass. Major partisan priorities without the threat of a republican filibuster. The framework includes plans for hundreds of billions of dollars. In investments on things like universal pre-k climate change measures paid family leave and housing affordability. The three point five trillion dollar budget. Bill is the start of a process known as budget reconciliation. Once the budget is passed committees will begin drafting legislation to implement those priorities. Senate majority leader chuck. Schumer says he wants the committee's finish their work. By september fifteenth schumer will need to convince all fifty senate democrats to support the policies and the related spending four. The legislation passed the senate kelsey snell. Npr news washington three and a half trillion dollar budget measures companion bill to the roughly one. Trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure. Package the senate is getting closer to finishing work on. It cleared a procedural hurdle last night. Setting up a potential vote on passage as early as tomorrow morning. Climate scientists alison kremlin says a strongly worded climate change report the united nate the united nations. Put out this morning. Shows that there is a lot of work to be done at. The world is going to limit. The temperature increases as called for in the paris agreement. I think what this report does a really good job of showing is that it's going to require significant sustained action to reduce emissions if we wanna keep those sorts of numbers in reach. The paris agreement called for limiting temperature increases to well below two degrees celsius a un report written by the world's top climate. Scientists says the earth will probably blow pass at in about a decade. that report comes as wildfires rage in western states in greece. They forced thousands from their homes over the past week new york state lawmakers their meeting this morning as part of an impeachment investigation into governor andrew cuomo lawmakers are meeting almost a week after new york state attorney. General's investigation concluded that cuomo sexually harassed multiple women as npr's hunt lo wong reports governor. Andrew cuomo has denied touching anyone inappropriately but the new york state assembly's judiciary committee says it's continuing its investigation into allegations of not only sexual harassment by cuomo but also using public resources to write a book binding special access to corona virus testing to relatives and under reporting the number of nursing home patients in the state who died from cova nineteen lawmakers are meeting the day after a top adviser cuomo melissa rosa announcer resignation in a statement to rosas said quote the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying doors has been criticized for how she handled allegations of sexual harassment by cuomo onto the long. Npr news new york and this is npr news taliban pressing it offensive in afghanistan following the biden administration's announcement that would finalize a. Us troops pull out by the end of the month over the weekend. Taliban fighters seized at least three provincial capitals including the strategic city of kunduz afghan forces however are reported to have launched a counter-offensive south korea officials say the jailed head of the country's largest corporation. Samsung electronics will be released on parole this friday. Npr's anthony kyun reports from seoul. The executive will be one of hundreds of convicts paroled on south korea's national liberation day holiday. The justice ministry explained that it made his decision based in part on the state of south korea's economy and public opinion. Ej young has served eighteen months of a revised thirty month sentence. He was convicted of bribing. A confidante of former president pocket. Hey business leaders have lobbied the government to parolee. Civic groups accused president moon jae in betraying his pledges to fight corruption and curb the power of the chaebols. South korea's powerful conglomerates waiting ease return as a decision on investing in seventeen billion dollars semiconductor plant in the us in the midst of a global chip. Shortage anthony kuhn. Npr news stocks are down in morning trading on wall street with energy companies slumping as oil prices. Dropped the dallas now. Down one hundred six points. The s&p five hundred and the nasdaq also declining overseas. Stocks are mixed major markets in europe.
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"Intensity according to him. It's a double edged sword. Unfortunately the smoke is laying in over a lot of northern california. It's affecting a lot of people but that's allowing us to make some good progress. The dixies expected containment date has been pushed back a week for npr news. I'm annelies finney in oakland but smoke from the fires is drifting east and it's causing air quality to deteriorate to very unhealthy levels and at times hazardous levels the senate today advanced bipartisan nearly one trillion dollar infrastructure bill clearing another hurdle on its way to a final vote. The legislation includes nearly five hundred. Fifty billion dollars in new spending of what congress was already planning to allocate for infrastructure over the next eight years. Senate minority leader mitch. Mcconnell republicans and democrats have radically different visions these days but both those visions include physical infrastructure. That works for all of our citizens. Senate democrats are expected to move quickly following the vote to start work on a budget resolution in hopes of passing a broader package of investments. That do not have the support of republicans. It's not clear when that vote will come but senate majority leader. Chuck schumer says he will keep senators there until the bill is sent to the house. The department of veterans affairs hasn't been properly awarding benefits to survivors of sexual assault. Npr's quil lawrence has more. Despite years of public focus on the issue the majority of sexual assaults in the military still go unreported which means veterans who tell the. Va they have ptsd from an assault. Don't always have the paperwork to prove it via official policy is to work around that to make sure veterans get the disability rating their do three years ago the agency's internal watchdog found that. Va was improperly denying benefits to veterans in these cases about forty nine percent of the time now after revisiting the issue. The inspector general says va has gotten worse denying benefits improperly fifty seven percent of the time it also found that recommendations to have specially trained staff handle claims of military sexual assault have not been followed quil lawrence. Npr news. and you're listening to npr. News under the thousands of demonstrators turned up across france for a fourth week of demonstrations against a new health. Pass law which takes effect next week as rebecca rosman reports. Starting monday people will have to show proof of vaccination or recent negative cove nineteen test to enter most public spaces around the country standing outside. France's constitutional court protesters chanted the word liebau claiming the health boss is a violation of personal freedoms on thursday. The court declared the hell was in line with the country's constitution. Meaning that starting next week anyone. In france winters a bar restaurant cafe or tries to board a train or plane without showing one can be fined one hundred and thirty five euros recent polls just a majority of french citizens support the health bath and government data shows more than half the country is now fully vaccinated but the protests have been growing in recent weeks saturday's demonstrations was the highest single-day turnout since the protests began last month for npr news. I'm rebecca rolston in paris in canada. Attentive agreement has been reached between the government and the union that represents border agents. The deal was reached last night after workers went out on a work to rule strike early yesterday. Causing massive delays along the border about ninety percent of frontline border workers are classified as essential employees and. that's a designation that prevents them from walking off the job. This as canada started to.
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"Live from npr news. I'm shay stevens. President biden took the opportunity of a bill signing on thursday to pay tribute to the police officers who defended the us capital on january. Sixth as npr's timber keith. Reports biden says the attack was fundamentally. Un-american biden signed the legislation awarding four congressional gold medals to the us capitol police dc metropolitan police and others who defended the capital from a violent mob of trump's supporters trying to stop the certification of the election results. Trudgy that day deserves the truth above all else. We cannot allow history to be rewritten. We can't allow the heroism of these officers to be forgotten. We have to understand what happened the honest and unvarnished truth. We have to face this comes. As some republicans in congress are increasingly reluctant to look back at the january. Six attack or falsely claim. It wasn't violent tamra keith. Npr news president biden has signed an executive order. That's aimed at ensuring that half of all vehicles sold in the united states by the year. Twenty thirty or electric powered the president is also urging automakers to commit to using american-made labor and parts board ceo. Jim farley says his company is already heading in that direction. We're number one advanced. That be getting electrified. Mustang number one sports car. That's electrified now. F150s number on pickup truck. Thats electrified when those volumes. Really come on next year That's really going to help our performance quite a bit on thursday. The biden administration announced. There would be new. Mileage anti-pollution standards for vehicles president biden wants to raise gas mileage and tailpipe emission standards by the year. Twenty twenty six for the first time since the administration took office. The justice department is investigating another police department. The first two probes target police in louisville kentucky and minneapolis as npr's carrie johnson reports. The latest probe focuses on the phoenix police department in the months ahead civil rights. Investigators will fan out in phoenix arizona. Assistant attorney general. Kristen clark says doj lawyers will look for evidence of excessive force. Discrimination against people with disabilities and whether law enforcement is violating the rights of homeless people when they tossed their belongings. Clark says that could run. Afoul of the fourth and fourteenth amendments and it could represent a new front for federal civil rights enforcers as cities across the country conduct regular sweeps of homeless camps attorney. General merrick garland says the mayor and police chief and phoenix have pledged to cooperate in the probe carrie johnson. Npr news washington. You're listening to npr news. Apple has announced plans to scan iphones for images of child sexual abuse. The company says it will use a tool called neural match to detect known images child-sex-abuse victims if there is a match the images will be reviewed by a human who can then notify law enforcement while the move is being applauded by some there is concern researchers fear. The app could be misused or leave apple vulnerable to political pressure. The senior official in charge of combating covert nineteen in the philippines is warning that without strict lockdowns that country risks becoming india with a highly contagious delta variant ripped through the healthcare system. Npr's julie mccarthy reports that manila is reverting to its strict quarantine measures starting on friday. The philippine capital has been ramping up preparation for a fresh two-week enhanced. Quarantine beginning friday. A curfew is in effect. Transportation is greatly limited and a stay at home order has been imposed retired. General carlito galvez head of the country's cove. Nineteen task force said without the strictest. Lock down. The country could suffer the same sort of surges experienced in india and indonesia where the death toll has risen with frightening speed in recent weeks. Indonesia now joins eleven other countries including brazil and mexico in hitting the grim milestone of one hundred thousand deaths from covert nineteen julie mccarthy npr news us futures are lower in after hours trading. I'm shay stevens this is npr news..
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"Npr news in washington. I'm jack speer. Senate majority leader chuck. Schumer said today. He is looking to speed up. Consideration of nearly one trillion dollar infrastructure improvement bill democrats promising work with republicans to push the bipartisan measure. Through one of those republicans will be debating the measure in the full senate. South dakota senator mike rounds. Who's part of the bipartisan group. That drafted the expansive legislation. Roads bridges water projects rail projects infrastructure meaning broadband. When we talk about internet connectivity and so forth those were items that republicans and democrats are agreeing on. It's now a matter of how you pay for them. What length of time do you give. And who's going to actually spend the money and who's going to receive benefits is a luminous bill is of sunday night weighed in at some twenty seven hundred pages both currently deciding what amendments to add to legislation amazon warehouse workers in alabama may get a second chance to vote on whether to form that company's first unionized warehouse in the us federal labor officials found amazon's anti union tactics tainted the previous election sufficiently to scrap. It's results and set up a do over. Npr's salinas has more back in april in a high profile. vote in bessemer alabama. amazon warehouse. Workers voted more than two to one against joining the retail wholesale and department store union. The union then filed a legal challenge accusing amazon of illegally pressuring workers to vote against unionizing amazon denied the charges and the national labor relations. Board held a hearing on the matter. Now the hearing officer is recommending the results of that election be set aside and a new election be set up and know that amazon is among. Npr's recent sponsors. The company says it will appeal the recommendation within weeks regional. Nlrb director will rule weather. That second new elections should be set. Alina seljuk npr news. In south central oregon firefighters of effectively fought the bootleg fire to a standstill member station. Jefferson public radio l'amour already reports. And it i started almost a month ago. The bootleg fire was growing by tens of thousands of acres day quickly becoming the nation's largest active wildfire now. A combination of hard work and several days of relatively mild weather has allowed crews to stop the fires growth bootleg fire spokesperson l. Nash says there are nearly two hundred seventy five miles of contained fire line but he says that we still have over fifty miles of open fire line. It just helps put into context. The size of this fire containment on the fire is now up to eighty four percent increasing fire weather over the next few days is expected to test those containment lines but officials have expressed confidence. They will hold for npr news. I'm liam moriarty in ashland oregon stocks closed mixed on wall street today. The dow is down ninety seven points. The nasdaq up eight points. The snp fell eight points. This is npr. The census bureau is preparing to release the next major set of results. From last year's national headcount many state and local governments have been waiting months for this new redistricting data and bears hunting the wong reports. They'll use the information to prepare for upcoming elections. New data. used to redraw voting districts is expected out by mid august almost five month. Delay has forced some state and local governments to push back election dates. The census bureau says needed that extra time to make sure the data is accurate. Last year's count was ended by the corona virus pandemic and the trump administration's last minute schedule changes. They detail demographic information is also coming with new privacy protections at the bureau says are needed to keep people anonymous in the data but many data users are concerned about how that could make information about rural and small geographic areas as well as minority groups unusable on lewan. Npr news new york money. Employers are growing increasingly frustrated with the unvaccinated a growing number of companies and businesses saying they were requiring employees to be vaccinated against covert nineteen as a condition of employment increasingly. Hardline comes amid the rise of the more contagious delta durant and frustration as some people still refused to get a cove in nineteen shot of the company stopping short of a mandate or taking steps to make it far more onerous for unvaccinated people to stay in the work place a group of progressive and pro white house groups say they are planning to spend nearly a hundred million dollars for mode. President binds agenda over the course of this month push being announced as being coupled wave of travel by the president's surrogates meant to promote and secure passage of the infrastructure bill as well as binds much broader spending agenda. I'm jack speer. Npr news in washington..
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"Sales in illinois will now be subject to universal background checks under legislation democratic governor. Jay pritzker signed today. This bill is the most comprehensive reform to our state firearms laws in over a generation brisker speaking in aurora side of the two thousand nineteen mass shooting at henry pratt company. The legislation also provides the money for a stolen gun database in the state and it has mental health funding for communities affected by gun violence such as chicago where the pace of gun. Violence is higher than last year's today. The governor also raised concerns organizers of lollapalooza failed to do a better job of keeping crowds safe from corona virus. Health officials are worried that the four day music festival might have also been a super spreader event for covert nineteen. It's estimated nearly a hundred thousand people flocked to chicago's grant park each day in new york governor. Andrew cuomo has announced that all of new york city's transit staff must be vaccinated. Npr's quil lawrence reports. New york may expand the mandate if cova numbers keep rising cuomo said mass transit. And new york's port authority workers must get a vaccine by labor day or test weekly. He encouraged businesses to require customers be vaccinated and he said the public supports it. Seventy five percent of new yorkers have gotten at least one shot it has been accepted as a social policy. And if you want to teach my kids. I think you should be vaccinated. And if you wanna take care of my mother in a nursing home. I think you should be vaccinated. Cuomo said recent changes in cdc guidance caused confusion but still encouraged local governments to follow the cdc including possible mask mandates indoors even for fully vaccinated people quil lawrence npr news new york more than three and a half million americans who owe back rent at risk of eviction some as soon as today the federal eviction. Moratorium pass last year to help slow. The spread across the virus expired over the weekend the us senate is poised to begin debating amendments to the roughly one trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package. Npr's windsor johnston reports lawmakers unveil details of the text last night. The bipartisan measure includes five hundred fifty billion dollars in spending to rebuild the nation's roads bridges and railways democratic senator. Kirsten cinema says lawmakers were able to work out a lot of their differences. We look forward very much to working with our colleagues in a collaborative and open way over the coming days to work through this historic investment and infrastructure in our country. Senate majority leader chuck schumer said once the bill is passed. He would move to a budget blueprint for a broader three point. Five trillion dollar measure crafted by democrats. That proposal would fund new spending on healthcare education and measures to combat climate change. The bill is not expected to gain support from senate. Republicans windsor johnston. Npr news washington npr. The us census bureau is preparing to release the next major set of results. From last year's national headcount many state and local governments have been waiting months for this new redistricting data. Npr's hansie long reports will use the information to prepare for upcoming elections. new data. used to redraw voting districts is expected out by mid august. Almost five month delay has forced some state and local governments to push back election dates. The census bureau says a needed that extra time to make sure. The data is accurate. I shares count was ended by the corona virus pandemic and the trump administration's last minute schedule changes. They detailed demographic information is also coming with new privacy protections that the bureau says are needed to keep people anonymous in the data but many data users are concerned about how that could make information about rural and small geographic areas as well as minority groups unusable on zeal along. Npr news new york china's confirming more than three hundred lives were lost to recent floods in hon on province. The vast majority were enjo- a transportation hub of twelve million people located along the yellow river cell phone images from the july torn show. How heavy rainfall turns streets into rivers from afar. People's vehicles looked a lot like toy cars floating and brown water video inside subway. Cars show the muddy water rising to shoulder height with passengers. Clasping two handles above them. Joe had received more than two feet of rain in a period of just three days. Authorities say fifty. People remain unaccounted for. I'm lakshmi singh npr news..
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"Live from npr news. I'm nora raum. Rescue crews in. Germany and belgium are searching for survivors and victims of deadly flooding triggered by record rainfall. More than one hundred sixty people are dead. The bbc's jenny hill reports from a district in germany. In all vajna everything and everyone is covered in thick sticky mutt. Ninety people have been confirmed dead in this district alone when you walked the center of town pasta engines and mounds of dutch in furniture. You can see why the main bridge is in ruins broken by the force of the floods even as we watched part of the bank broke off and slid into the fast-flowing river. Many people still unaccounted for and emergency workers using amphibious vehicles. Continue the search and rescue though. It's fit that is fast becoming a recovery operation. Only the bbc's jenny hill the health secretary in the united kingdom who's leading the country's corona virus response tested positive today. Npr's amy held reports saji. Javid says he took a rapid test. After feeling groggy. It came back positive in the past week. Three hundred thousand people have also tested positive in the uk. That's up a forty percent from the week before the highly contagious delta strain makes up almost all new cases but starting monday face masking social distancing and crowd limit requirements are set to be lifted. Javid has said. Vaccinations will help create a protective wall. As the country reopens though around. A third of uk adults are not fully vaccinated. Javid says they should not hesitate. If you have had your jobs yet. Please get out there and get them as soon as you can. The health secretary himself has had both astrazeneca shots and says so far his covert nineteen symptoms are mild amy held. Npr news officials at ford hood. Say they're investigating after more than one hundred night-vision devices went missing. Npr's rachel tradesman has more popular facebook. Page that posts about army culture shared the news of the missing equipment earlier this week. Details about the brand value of the devices are not known but commercially available. Night-vision goggles range in price from several hundred to several thousand dollars. A spokesperson says the missing equipment has no immediate impact on unit readiness. It's not the first time in recent memory that such devices have disappeared. A former soldier at north carolina's fort bragg was charged in two thousand nineteen with stealing millions of dollars of equipment including forty three night vision. Goggles officials are asking anyone with information to call the fort hood crime tips. Line rachel tradesman. Npr news shots rang out in washington tonight outside the baseball park during a game. With the san diego. Padres sending fans running dc. Police say two people were shot. No details were provided. They say it appears the danger is over. The game was suspended in the sixth inning. You're listening to npr news. Meteorologists are warning of critically dangerous. A fire conditions at least through monday in california and oregon the largest wildfire. Now burning in the us is in southern oregon. The bootleg fire keeps growing as it burns through bone dry forests. It's now four hundred thirty nine square miles more than one hundred square miles larger than the area of new york city. A female director has won the top prize at the cannes film festival. Which ramped up tonight on the french riviera. Npr's eleanor beardsley. Reports visibly moved wrench director. Julia you cool no accepted the pound door teton and odyssey about a serial killer. She's only the second woman to take the top prize since jane campion one for the piano. Twenty eight years ago. The film that won the palm doors to town raise. In a moment of confusion jury president spike lee jumped the gun when he announced the pound door winter. Too soon in the awards ceremony can is the first major film festival to be held sense. The pandemic began this year. It had smaller crowds and mandated mask-wearing in theaters. Eleanor beardsley impair news. Paris thousands of people rallied in the streets of havana today. This time in support of the cuban government. The event was organized in response to last sunday's demonstrations against the government thousands turned out to protest food and medicine shortages and power outages. I'm nora raum npr news..
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"Road's flooded. Several villages in the region are no longer accessible and with more continuous downpour. Expected today and tomorrow the army is being deployed to help with rescue efforts as nicholson reporting from berlin the taliban say they have overrun a border crossing with pakistan. Npr's diaa hadid reports. It's one of the most important crossings for personal and commercial travel across the border between afghanistan and pakistan. The taliban released video showing one of its fighters standing before an entry point to the spin boldak crossing a local resident told npr that afghan officials appear to a fled across the border in pakistan. One resident uploaded footage of taliban loyalists waving the black and white insurgent flag and cheering as the news. Filtered in pakistani officials confirmed they shuttered their side of the crossing over the past few weeks taliban have been overrunning parts of afghanistan. That focused on border crossings. They want to choke the afghan government economically sees their revenue and force regional countries to deal with the insurgent group. D hadeed npr news. The dow jones industrial average is down seventy three points since the open at thirty four thousand. Eight hundred sixty this is. Npr news in turkey. People are marking the fifth anniversary of an attempted. Coup d'etat by elements of the turkish military. The attempted coup left about two hundred fifty people dead. Npr's peter kenyon reports a crackdown against president reggie type air to one's enemies continues in remarks last week aired one remember those who heeded his call for a massive public uprising against armed soldiers tanks and fighter jets on the night of july fifteenth 2016 whereas he leyla on this occasion. He said i wish god's mercy on our security forces soldiers citizens and friends who were martyred on july fifteenth five years on rights groups say ongoing purges carried out under a state of emergency have led to the sacking of more than one hundred thousand people in academia the judiciary the military and in the media. Peter kenyon npr news. Istanbul the latest effort to form a new. Lebanese government has collapsed. Prime minister designate. Saad hariri emerged from his meeting. Today with president michel a wound and announced he would resign citing quote key differences. The latest development adds to widespread worries about the lebanese leadership's ability to regroup and steer the country out of a deepening economic crisis. Back in the us and number of americans applying for unemployment insurance as reportedly reached its lowest level since the start of the pandemic last year. The labor department reporting that unemployment claims fell by twenty six thousand last week to three hundred. Sixty thousand the dow is off nearly eighty points. You're listening to npr news..
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"Day as well as progress against cove in nineteen a large in-person gathering like this as a sign of just how this traditionally cova cautious whitehouse's feeling about how far the. Us has come in. Its fight against the virus thanks to vaccines but the more contagious delta variant is now circulating widely and people who haven't been vaccinated are at risk says dr anthony xiaojie celebrating the country at the same time as we recognize the fact that we're in a serious situation for those who have not been vaccinated and the vestiges get vaccinated white house officials say it's appropriate to celebrate the dramatic decline in deaths and hospitalizations while acknowledging. There is still much work to do thirty three percent of. Us adults haven't yet gotten their first. Shot tamra keith. Npr news preparations continue in surf. Side florida for the demolition of a portion of the champ lane tower south that still standing after much of the building collapsed eleven days ago. Npr's dave missed itch reports in the meantime. The search for survivors is on hold miami. Dade county mayor danielle levin cava says bringing down the remainder of the collapse condo in a controlled. Fashion is crucial to the safety of search and rescue teams. Those teams have paused their work. So demolition can take place. Our top priority. Is that the building. Come down as soon as possible no matter what time that occurs and as safely as possible preparations for the demolition come as tropical storm elsa is tracking towards southern florida. Which is expected to hit the area. Monday and tuesday governor. Rhonda's santa's has issued a state of emergency for fifteen counties including miami dade dave message. Npr news a philippine. Air force plane has crashed on a southern island. Npr's npr's julie mccarthy reports at least forty five people were killed including three civilians the c. One thirty had been transporting troops from island of mindanao to the neighboring island chain of sulu. The philippines military chief said the plane had missed the runway trying to regain power. A number of personnel are reported to have jumped from the aircraft moments before the crash images from the scene. Show the c. One thirty chart and broken apart lying amid a grove of palm trees a column of thick black smoke rising. It is the country's worst military disaster in nearly thirty years according to a government website the c. one thirty hercules arrived in january one of two that the united states handed over to the philippines under in assistance grant. The national defense department said an investigation is underway. Julie mccarthy npr news. This is npr software. Supplier kosei says it's contained a ransomware attack the potentially affected hundreds of businesses worldwide. The company says it knows how it happened and is working with the fbi. The vatican has announced the pope. Francis is in a hospital for scheduled surgery on his colon. Npr sylvia pohjola reports. The announcement came hours after the pope cheerfully. Delivered is sunday message to crowds in saint peter's square vatican spokesman mateo buni said. The pope suffers from symptomatic diverticulitis stenosis. A narrowing of the large intestine that can cause abdominal pain. Surgery will be performed at jamaica. Hospital where popes traditionally received medical care the eighty four year. Old pope is in generally good health. It's the first time he's been hospitalized. Since his election in two thousand thirteen and contrary to his predecessors he never takes vacations francis sometime short of breath because one lung was removed when he was young and he also suffers sciatica which causes pain along his lower back and leg. He maintains a heavy schedule of appointments and earlier today appeared in good spirits as he announced his visit to hungary and slovakia in september so people jolie npr news rome the head of the union that represents tsa officers says despite government hiring efforts dozens of airports around. The country are short staffed this weekend. Travelers are being encouraged to arrive extra early for their flights. I'm barbara klein npr news..
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"Live from npr news. i'm jack speer. John in minneapolis is ordering the city to increase the number of active police officers in the midst of a surge in violent crime. Workm- npr's martin kosti the minneapolis. Police department has lost about a quarter of its cop. Since the murder of george floyd while shootings have increased sondra samuels lives on the city's hard hit north side and she says while she wants police reform that should not mean less policing during a wave of violence. Eighty three percent of the gun. Fat victims are black. We only make up twenty percent of the city so we need a transform department and we need police staffed at the proper levels samuels and other sued the city for letting the number of cops fall below the minimum set by the city charter. A judge ordered higher staffing. But there's likely to be a ballot initiative this fall to replace the current department martin kosti. Npr news minneapolis officials in north miami beach. Say they've now ordered the evacuation of a condominium about five miles from the scene of last week's deadly collapse of another building city announcing an audit prompted by last week's building collapse finds the one hundred fifty six unit buildings both structurally and electrically unsafe residents hauled suitcases packed items into cars today. Meanwhile at the scene of the partial collapse of the champlain tower south additional bodies were recovered. Bring the confirmed death. Toll there to twenty two dozens more remain unaccounted for. President bind says the economy is on the move and cova nineteen is on the run but his npr's asthma hollered reports as we head into the holiday weekend. The contagious delta variant is spreading. The white house plans to celebrate this. Fourth of july is a return to normal life. After months of pandemic restrictions. the president is inviting some one thousand military personnel in essential workers to the white house lawn. Still biden says he is concerned that people who are not vaccinated could catch this new co variant and spread it to other unvaccinated. People concerned. There's going to be a major outbreak in other words that we're going to have another epidemic nationwide but and concern lies will be lost. The white house had set a goal of getting at least one vaccine dose to seventy percent of adults by independence day. But they're expected to fall a bit short us mukalla. Npr news the whitehouse. Firefighters fighters in california. Say they're making progress against wildfires in northern california that burned several homes and forced people to evacuate three big fires of so far scorched upwards of sixty square miles of land in the mount shasta region damage was reported the salt fire which prompted evacuation in the unincorporated community of lake had north of the city of reading to the north container of the lava fire near mount shasta increased to twenty seven percent work on the tenant fire and the call with national forest continues on wall street. Today the dow was up one hundred fifty two points. The nasdaq rose one hundred. Sixteen points this is. Npr airport workers in paris are protesting pay cuts and beers owner beardsley reports. Hundreds of union activists blocked a busy international terminal. Charles de gaulle airport today after talks broke down between employees and management striking workers beating drums and blowing horns and whistles blocked passport control at charles de gaulle airport on the first big weekend of summer vacation. Departures workers are.